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Project Two Outline Example

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This is an example of the working thesis formula, a thesis, and an outline for Project Two. Notice how the THESIS and BODY PARAGRAPHS both analyze and support the WAY THE RHETORICAL STRATEGIES WORK IN THE ESSAY "COMMUNIQUE FROM AN ABSENT FUTURE."

 

Author = Anonymous

Work = “Communique from an Absent Future”

Thesis (of the work) = The article has a three-part thesis:

1. Like the society to which it has played the faithful servant, the university is bankrupt.

2. The modern university has no history of its own; its history is the history of capital.

3. We seek to push the university struggle to its limits. 

 

X, Y, Z (rhetorical strategies) = Primarily utilizes pathos and ethos to persuade readers.


 

(MY) THESIS: The anonymous article “Communique from an Absent Future” primarily utilizes pathos and ethos to persuade the reader of three things: that the university is socially bankrupt, that the university and its collapse are tied to the failed capitalist system, and finally that it is time to act and reform the university.

 

Body Paragraphs (support thesis):

1. Ethos and pathos are used to persuade reader that the university is socially bankrupt.

2. Ethos and pathos are used to persuade the reader that the university is intertwined with capitalism and that these two institutions have collapsed together.

3. Ethos and pathos are used to persuade the reader, the potential college student, that it is time to act and reform the university. 

 

Conclusion: Ultimately, “Communique from an Absent Future” aims to persuade the reader to join other students at the barricades. Since the anonymous author wants the readers to act immediately, it relies on the rhetorical strategies that may provoke the reader to act. The author prompts the reader to make an emotional decision and reinforces that decision by persuading the reader that everyone supports this 

 

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